Dual PIII CPU motherboard recommendations?

[Guest]

I'm looking for a motherboard that supports Dual PIIIs, I've found a few VIA chipset ones, but I know these have compatability problems with some of my current hardware (G400 esp.).

I need it as a workstation (I do programming and 2D/3D graphics), so I'd like it as stable as possible.

Are there any intel chipsets that support dual PIIIs, or is the VIA chipset option worthwhile despite the possible compatibilty problems?

Any recommended motherboards?

Many thanks,
Manteau

 

[Crashman]

ASUS P2BD-S will run Dual PIII's but is slot 1. It will jumper to 112MHz bus speed which would give you 952MHz on an 850. You will need two matching slot-1 prcessors to do it, or "slotket" addaptors. It uses the BX chipset and is available with onboard SCSI.

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[rcf84]

try supermicro they make great dual processor boards

www.supermicro.com


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[igottaknife]

I must agree SuperMicro

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[Guest]

I have two supermicro boards, but the problem right now is that with supermicro you either have to:

1.) go with a dual slot board with the intel 840 (vs. socket which I prefer)

2.) go with Serverworks LE (no AGP = no good for graphics, and requires expensive ECC Registered memory)

3.) go with Serverworks HE (~$600 for the board and also requires registered ECC memory)

Another board I'm really looking at is the Tyan Thunder i840 which is a dual socket board, onboard Adaptec SCSI, etc. The only problem is that it costs $700+ just for the motherboard.

 

[Unolocogringo]

Go with the asus, very good board ,very stable board, excellent performance, what more do you need?

 

[jclw]

If you get the Asus P2B-D board get a rev 1.06 D03 (or later). These boards will run the PIIIE (coppermine) SECC2 (slot 1) chips 1GHz+. People appear to have more trouble running PIIIEs on the P2B-DS (onboard SCSI) boards then the P2B-D boards.

- JW

 

[necroscope]

are there any good ones for EB's?

 

[necroscope]

for slot 1, 4x agp, 5pci, 4dimm would be nice

having trouble finding a good one

 

[jclw]

As bnn touched on there is not really any one dual chipset that stands out:
- Intel 840: Uses rambus not sdram so memory is $$$$$$$$$$$$
- VIA VT82C694X: Well.... VIA doesn't rank very highly in my books right now
- ServerWorks III HE: Very nice, but $$$$$$$$$$$$
- ServerWorks III LE: Very nice, but no AGP and $$$
- Intel 440GX: Like 440BX but designed for servers, 100MHz FSB, not very common, $$$
- Intel 815E: Not very SMP friendly, but Acorp now has a dual 815E based board out.
- Intel 440BX: 100MHz FSB but will o/c to 133MHz

Hopefully we'll see more 815E based dual boards in the near future but I don't know... I'd like to see a speed comparison between overclocked PIII-800Es on an Asus P2B-D (Intel 440BX) and PIII-800EBs on an Asus CUV4X-D (VIA VT82C694X).

- JW

 

[Arrow]

Try this board (based on VIA chipset however):
ASUS CUV4X-D VIA 694X/Z DUAL FCPGA 300-1.1GHZ+ UDMA100 1 4XAGP 5PCI

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[Guest]

I cannot locate the ASUS CUV4X-D on their site I see the CUR-DLS based on the Serverworks LE, but the CUV4X series are all singles. And their search function results in a 404 error...

 

[jclw]

ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/mb/sock370/694xdp/Cuv4x-d/

- JW